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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
defcon@defcon.social ("DEF CON") wrote:

We will launch the #DefCon 34 Original Sound Track (OST) early Wednesday on https://media.defcon.org and at https://defconmusic.org so people can listen while they travel

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Dear YouTubers, when you set up your camera, make sure it's focused on you and not on the microphone directly in front of you, which means you will be ever slightly out of focus the entire time you are speaking. That's really annoying and distracting.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
itamarst@hachyderm.io ("Itamar Turner-Trauring") wrote:

Do neoliberals dream of electric neopets

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

partner has literally gone yellow and has severe abdominal pain and won't go to hospital because it costs money he doesn't have.

the system makes me so fucking mad sometimes.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

And if that's the political future we're heading toward, we (the US) are in trouble. Because conservatives, in the end, have a political party. Whereas leftists do not, or at least the Democrats try *very* hard to keep the left from having one. This means in an election, "everything's fine" and "everything sucks; legalize racial discrimination" are options on the ballot, but "everything sucks; spend money to fix it" isn't. Meaning eventually, "everything sucks" voters gravitate Republican. (3/3)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

…and loss of New Deal safety nets. Whereas Kurtz concludes, in a series of escalating dogwhistles before finally just saying it, the problem is racial integration of schools.

Kurtz's alarming underlying worldview makes this post, if anything, the more interesting. It maybe portends a future where centrists/neoliberals/"Democrats" cling ever-harder to an insistence everything is fine, while conservatives and leftists point to the same ballooning problems while proposing opposite solutions. (2/3)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/117027161791298205

What's interesting to me about this piece is large sections of it sound like a leftist analysis of current economics, but Kurtz is writing from a *very* right wing perspective; so he highlights the same problems a lefty might care about, but generally reaches opposite conclusions about etiology and fixes.

For example, he cites dysfunctional public schools as a loss of "social capital". A leftist might agree, and conclude the reason schools got worse is systematic conservative defunding… (1/3)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thisemailfindsyou ("I Hope This Email Finds You") wrote:

I hope this email finds you running BLAST or other sequence analysis applications, learning to use the Bioperl system.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

nobody should be exposed to sources that they have not been radiologically briefed for

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

@wilbowma i ported the first half of your nbe 4 ways to idris, which i think makes it much easier to see what's going on. the rest may follow, but i'm having difficulty porting the metacircular interpreter and i'm giving up for now.

https://gist.github.com/jjl/196f79f704b01ff545d368914565e435

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

Surprise! If it didn't work, then they wouldn't have to put such huge resources into trying to ban trans healthcare

https://xtramagazine.com/video/canada-trans-youth-detransition-study-282599

#Trans #TransRights #TransHealthcare

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
soph@grrl.me ("Sophia J. Turner") wrote:

Greetings from Servo! I have to say, this recent 0.4 release is significantly better than the last one I tried (which I think was 0.2). Far more websites are working and stability appears to be significantly improved. A ways to go, yet, but all very promising.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/apfqsnqa9fhm01oa

Oh I'm kinda guilty of this too. Unintentional gender euphoria?

On a more serious note, if you do the "60 messages in the morning thing", what the hell do you talk about?

(Serious question, I've had a friend advise me to take more initiative in social interactions, and I have zero clue how to go about doing that)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

Looking for source of quote: "The real purpose of AI is to give the wealthy access to skill without giving the skilled access to wealth." thanks in advance (please note: not in search of commentary at present time)

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Mrs. Neatnik and I are celebrating 23 years of marriage today! 💞

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz ("Albert Cardona") wrote:

@kofanchen

The grant agency and the applicants themselves can also run the LLMs; wouldn't need us reviewers to do so. What's more, it's possible that the applicants have fine-tuned their proposal in response to feedback from an LLM. So we reviewers would add nothing (or worse, as explained) by running LLMs on the proposal.

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/settle/

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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

Stickers I should not make

Boosted by jwz:
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

Convinced that home assistant is a covert operation to sabotage productivity of people who would otherwise spend weekends inventing things

Boosted by jwz:
stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

As long as we're bashing RFK Jr here, I should I've been really enjoying the new podcast "Good Science", where my old boss Anthony Atamaniuk does a pitch-perfect impression of the guy as he attempts a podcast with an idiot from the Austin comedy manosphere (expertly played by Gil Ozeri).

If you've ever seen Anthony's Trump, (he's been calling in to the new Infowars!) you know how dark and no-holds-barred that impression goes, and the same is true here. It's cathartic and hilarious.

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• video: d29dfb718141355d.mp4

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Did Corlys die in this episode? #HouseOfTheDragon

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• video: A video discussing House of the Dragon.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Otis likes sitting in the laundry basket. #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

The danger however comes when we confuse his title for his expertise. "Secretary of Health Kennedy says ___" gives the air of legitimacy. Far better to say "Heroin addict Kennedy", "Man who eats road kill and has a brain worm", "Harvard drug dealer" or even "Nuzzi's ex boyfriend".

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

YouTube shorts has always been a bit shit but all of a sudden the quality of the recs/algorithm has dropped like a rock. Filled with bullshit videos like “AI” narration over a social media screenshot.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

That's not to disparage Strudel! It is a great platform and I would probably not be doing this composition without it. But it definitely has strengths and weaknesses

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I'm finding that there is enough space between "thinking up a great riff" and transcribing it into Strudel properly that I often forget it 😭 .

Another thing I can perhaps do is learn LMMS or similar which tends to be better at musical sequences (Strudel is very loop-based)

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

This is the other thing I've been working on, but it definitely has more clashes than I like

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• audio: an attempt at electronic happy-sounding music in a very major key. there are some clashing notes and it sounds a bit generic

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I should start practising my guitar more often, Strudel is not so great for rock/pop

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

I appreciate that this may be hard to believe, but I didn't use genAI to create this life-like image.